Finished Product

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_DAsFuE8i0

Organisation- Locations

The location of our filming was all in the woods next to the college grounds. It was therefore nearby so that when we came to film our actors didn't have to travel far and we could get the most out of our allocated filming time. The woods were a suitable filming set because we could film in different areas so that the setting looked different every time, creating the sense of travel.

Planning: Filming

On day one of filming we organised three of our actors (Dan Dawson, Hannah Cook and Jordan Cooper) to do the shots of the couple and the murderer. The filming session wasn't as successful as we hoped as the weather wasn't on our side so the actors refused to do a couple of the shots at that time. To use up the time we had, we did a couple of the shots involving our props.

Here is a screen shot of one our successful filmed clips from day one;


Day two of filming was even more unsuccessful as day one. Because of the time of the lesson being at the very end of the college day, all of our actors were not available for filming. To make use of the camera time, we again did filming of the chosen props used and we also added a new shot consisting of a scoping point of view shot. This helped increase our film length and also gave our piece a different type of shot.

Here is a screen shot of one our successful filmed clips from day two;

These shots depict the storyline and plot in a enigmatic way which automatically participates the audience into the film. In each individual shot, we had to change time lengths and shot types such as close ups and establishing shots. We did this to create a more interesting and meaningful group of visual effects that engages the audience and reinforce the storyline.

Genre Research Summary

The openings of films for our genre, horror, mostly set the atmosphere straight away in the opening credits. They generally have a specific mood and feel aswell as have genre specific non diagetic music.

Audience research focus group

We have set up a focus group in which to achieve some feedback for our target audience. We primarily set this up to gain feedback from the outside world instead of our own points of view, this also helps us to use trial and error and create a wider array of target audiences. This focus group contained;

Alex Clark

Dan Dawson

Jasmine Mckeown

Laura Court-Jones

Audience research focus group meeting analysis

We have gathered some feedback from our focus group, and this is what they had to say.

This feedback has shown that for the genre, we need to add more violent themes and create more of an atmosphere for our movie. This will help us when we come to creating the title sequence. Some of the comments such as 'more weapons' or 'more gore' can help us create a more detailed and atmospheric environment for the audience.

Dexter- from conception to screen

Dexter, is a television series, which depicts the difference between everyday norms, and violent undertones, it also conceives the idea that everything we do is violent when the perspective is flipped. Dexter is a great example of how this works and is show. The opening credits for dexter are somewhat disturbing although only to a violent perspective, in actuality the opening scene is harmless, its only the manner in which it is portrayed that makes it disturbing.

The concept idea for the opening credits was entirely different to the finished product. The tones of the two opening credits are also completely different, this is because the non diagetic music in the background gives a more sinister atmosphere where as the whole point in the program Dexter is to create two different tones, a violent and a subtle atmosphere. With this music playing in the background the tone is immediately set to a violent one instead of two contrasting ideas.